I would be a regular at all my local coffeeshops and an annually renewing member of every museum I've ever enjoyed, whenever possible at whatever level let me pop in for free whenever I felt like it

Cosigning all of this, including the part where I've got a story in here too! If queer sword & sorcery sounds like fun to you, maybe consider checking it out!

Gosh I love portfolio day. If you are an artist who might wanna work with us, I'd love it if you filled out the form over here: www.neonhemlock.com/info

the distance between "it's a beautiful sunny spring day!!" and "help I'm an overheating sauna" is so tiny and paved with dumb choices about taking a little walk

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions four weeks from today, from April 19 to 25. It's one of only three weeks this year that Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

Shannon is a friend and this project is so so cool! ZINE SHOP!!

#uspolitics this seems like something that would be of interest to some of the US folks I know

Serpent Mound! Also I'm pretty sure we got to ride on a paddlewheeler at one point.

I also win because I love these characters SO MUCH and so every increasingly amazing sketch from @pomidaea.bsky.social filled me with utter delight

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

finally watched the new Superman movie today, about an eon behind everybody else, and NOBODY TOLD ME CINCINNATI'S UNION TERMINAL WAS A FILMING LOCATION CINCINNATI MENTIONED*!!!!!!! *very much not mentioned, it was probably? part of Metropolis? I think?? but I KNOW THAT EXTERIOR I KNOW THAT LOBBY

After the snow stops, it’s time to shovel! City staff and each of our neighborhood liaisons will be holding Love Your Block volunteer shoveling meet-ups Tuesday to clean out some problem areas. Bring a shovel and a friend! There's more info at boston.gov/shovel. ❄️

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

#uspolitics hell yeah, this is like the bare minimum warranted here (as the thread expounds upon)

One of my favorite stupid household memes is when my wife cries, "GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!" and the aid that Gondor requires of Rohan is opening a jar of salsa or whatever

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

EXTREMELY ENTHUSIASTICALLY COSIGNING this grassroots Hugo campaign for Elisa Chavez's poetry in general and this one in particular

I'm so happy

Anyone I know going to Boskone? I'll be there on Saturday, and I'll also have some pottery in the art show. (Baby's first con art show!) Let me know if you want to meet up, or we can just keep an eye out for each other in the halls!

If you have a ring camera, it is possible to return it and get a refund, and looking into doing so might be well worth your time. bsky.app/profile/tris...

My good friend @wakeupnew.bsky.social has a rabbit who needs an emergency blood transfusion. If you might be able to provide a healthy rabbit blood donor, please DM her (or me if needed!) I can vouch for the urgent need and the eternal gratitude and cute bunny pictures you would get in return

ughhh of course (this isn't really #uspolitics it's more global labor burden of tech but tagging for friends just in case)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Damn. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

#uspolitics <3

I found this a very heartening read (for "given that this horrific and enraging situation is even happening" values of heartening, but it is, so analysis of useful tactics is indeed heartening) #uspolitics

Submissions continue to be open for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's fiction series. I'm gallivanting around NYC but the in-box isn't on vacation! alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

We tend to think of things happening in the present as the endpoint of stuff that's been percolating for decades, but it's also the beginning of new things: These are formative events that nobody living through them will forget, and we have no idea what seeds are being sown for the future.

I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I have a story -- a graphic adaptaiton, in fact! -- live today in the #soilpunk magazine Tractor Beam! The absolutely wonderful art was done (really impressively fast!) by Xiang Yata. You can read "The Valley in Thaw" and all the rest at www.tractorbeam.earth

Snow makes neighbors of us all.

We are pleased to announce that @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social and @epbirdsall.bsky.social have joined our spy thriller anthology, OF INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE, out May 2027! More details here: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/03/13/s...

🧵 On December 30, 1936, thousands of General Motors auto workers courageously sat down on the job inside the plants in Flint, MI, and shut down the most powerful corporation in the world. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social

At 7pm GMT Today! The Female Man, a Discussion, 30 December: Free, at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh The last posting of the link will be one hour before, so this is the last chance to sign up.

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

Not only did @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social get me an electric fireplace space heater for Christmas/Hanukkah (thus WINNING WINNER HOLIDAYS OMG) but she also got me the present of a chance to assemble a piece of furniture thereby. I'm a simple soul.

that thing where your cat is sleeping in a circle and you put your arms around them and rest your forehad on their soft fur, and they don't move but they start to purr 😭 that's all

Limited time thing! It would help a ton if you would share - if it helps, it's very cute and it's gayyy

course I’m sharing that, it’s likely the only time anybody will ever ask for an emergency theremin

I'm at urgent care (nothing too serious!) and the waiting room's Disney medley is sending me. We've bibbity bobbitied! We've tale as old as timed! We've... done some love song I don't recognize! Now we're not talking about Bruno.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Reading "I Leap Over the Wall," a 1950 memoir by Monica Baldwin, who entered a cloistered convent in 1914 and left it like a dazed and blinking time traveler into the wildly different world of 1941, and it is FASCINATING. I'm having a wonderful time so far.

Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed." Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/ Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

You know that feeling when you're reading along going "wow, this book is SUCH AN ID VORTEX, it's hilariously over the top, I wonder how it's going to stick this landing???" In this case, readers: it did not 😅

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

my beautiful wife, handing me this month's book club book, which happens to be by Ursula Le Guin: "what about DEEZ... possesseds"

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)